Linda Peterson is the co-founder of Peterson Skolnick & Dodge, a marketing communications firm with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and Philadelphia. This is her first novel. She and her husband, a judge, live in Lafayette, California. They have one son (and one daughter-in-law!).
Linda is an award-winning writer, and a frequent speaker and lecturer on writing, communication and marketing topics. She was the recipient of the International Association of Business Communicators' first Distinguished Communicator award. She has been cited by Inc. Magazine as one of the West’s “new breed of entrepreneurs.” Although EDITED TO DEATH is Linda’s first novel, she has written the text for a number of other books, including THE STANFORD CENTURY, Chronicle Books’ ON FLOWERS, HarperCollins’ LINENS and CANDLES. She is also a frequent contributor to publications including the Chicago Tribune.
Her consulting and creative services clients include a mix of corporate, academic, arts, and environmental organizations.
In the literary community, Linda is a frequent interviewer for on-stage author events. She has interviewed Scott Turow for The Stanford Conference on Publishing, and Amy Tan, Gus Lee, and Whitney Otto for the San Francisco New Main Library series. She co-founded the popular Sweet Thursdays literary salons for the Lafayette Library, and has been a garden columnist for Diablo Magazine and was a regular contributor to The San Francisco Review of Books.
Linda is a graduate of Stanford University.
